Apocreadiidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Idea ...
of parasitic worms in the class
Trematoda
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is usually a snail. The definitive host, ...
.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a rod-shaped excretory vesicle, no cirrus-sac and the genital pore just in front of the ventral sucker or occasionally just behind it.
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial ...
:
*Apocreadiinae
Skrjabin, 1942
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Callohelmis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Cribb & Bray, 1999
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Choanodera
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ...
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Manter, 1940
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Crassicutis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Manter, 1936
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Dactylotrema
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ...
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Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957
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Homalometron
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Stafford, 1904
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Marsupioacetabulum
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ...
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Yamaguti, 1952
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Microcreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Simer, 1929
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Myzotus
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ...
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Manter, 1940
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Neoapocreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Neomegasolena
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Pancreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Manter, 1954
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Posterotestis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Ostrowski de Nunez, Brugni & Flores, 2003
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Procaudotestis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Szidat, 1954
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Trematobrien
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Dollfus, 1950
*Megaperinae
Manter, 1934
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Haintestinum''
Pulis, Curran, Andres & Overstreet, 2013
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Megapera''
Manter, 1934
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Thysanopharynx''
Manter, 1933
*Postporinae
Yamaguti, 1958
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Postporus
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Manter, 1949
*Schistorchiinae
Yamaguti, 1942
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Megacreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Nagaty, 1956
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Neomegacreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Machida & Kuramochi, 1999
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Schistorchis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Lühe in Herdman, 1906
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Sphincteristomum
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961
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Sphincterostoma
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a ro ...
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Yamaguti, 1937
References
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Plagiorchiida
Trematode families